Twitter today is expanding the #ThereIsHelp notification service and Freedom of Expression Search Prompt in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The search prompt is a first for these countries and marks the […]
Twitter has put in place election-specific initiatives to safeguard public conversations on the microblogging site. The May 9 presidential elections have, perhaps, the most engaged supporters of candidates. Twitter banned political ads […]
Under the pretext of promoting free speech, the world’s richest man Elon Musk seals the takeover deal of social media platform Twitter. For P$44 billion, Twitter is now under the control of […]
In September 2021, social media platform Twitter road-tested the new label that would identify “good bots” from the “bad bots.” The effort is to help Twitter users determine correct information from misleading […]
The entertainment audience in Southeast Asia (SEA) is highly active on Twitter as evidenced by the 25.5 million tweets sent on the platform for the year 2021. People gathered on Twitter to […]
Following efforts to keep the platform a healthy venue for conversation, Twitter is calling upon people to join together to make the internet a safer and better place for all, especially for […]
Recognizing the increasing need to protect children from online sexual exploitation, social media platform Twitter and non-governmental organization Plan International Philippines teamed up to develop the “#NotForSale: A Safer Twitter” campaign. The […]
From the 7.8 billion Tweets sent globally in 2021, the Philippines ranked second in countries that tweeted the most about K-pop. Twitter broke the previous record of 6.7 billion Tweets in 2020. […]
Twitter has rolled out the “Report Tweet” feature in the Philippines, Brazil, and Spain after the initial launch in Australia, South Korea, and the United States last year. The feature aims to […]
With the COVID-19 pandemic going on for two years, with new variants emerging, some people are still cooped up in their homes even if some economies are already opening. People, gamers especially, […]
In recognition of this year’s World Mental Health Day, Twitter is continuing its commitment to protecting the health of the public conversation and for the people to have a free as well […]
Twitter provides a platform to voice out their opinion or share even their most personal thoughts, Generation Z (or Gen Z, people born from 1995 to 2010) has allowed the world to […]
Leading up to the 9.9 Sale of different e-commerce platforms, consumers are so hyped they turn to Twitter to talk about what they are adding to their cart or what they are […]
With the increasing cases of COVID-19 in the past weeks, Filipinos turn to Twitter to air their concern, grievances, and sympathy. The latest data from the social networking site saw 10 million […]
To get the latest news and trends, many people these days would go to Twitter and look for what’s trending. This way, they can easily filter the information relevant to them. Through […]
Twitter users are multigenerational and it has become a place where a diverse range of topics is discussed and dissected. The latest information from Twitter saw that around 35.2% of Filipinos on […]
Not even a year since it launched Fleets, Twitter is shutting down the feature patterned after Snapchat and Instagram Stories. In a blog post, Ilya Brown, head of product, brand, and video […]
With the increase in gamers grew during the pandemic — and the number is expected to increase in the coming years — social network platform Twitter revealed that there were more than […]
After subsequent notices of revamping the verified accounts policy, microblogging and social networking service announced that it will soon begin the review of public applications. It also announced the removal of the […]
Months after testing the new live audio feature, Twitter officially launched Spaces for accounts with 600 followers. This comes at the heels of the buzz created by Clubhouse, an invitation-only social media […]
Social media platform Twitter has started labeling tweets that may contain misinformation on the COVID-19. This is one of the company’s efforts in protecting public conversation surrounding COVID-19. Twitter started to roll […]
In 2004, EU SafeBorders launched the Safer Internet Day project. Today, it has become a global event observed in approximately 170 countries to highlight the need for a safe online experience not […]
Social media platform Twitter said it recorded 2 billion tweets about gaming in 2020, which is up 75% from 2019, with a 49% increase in unique authors. Being cooped up at home […]
Twitter is revisiting its verification feature and purging accounts that don’t meet the criteria for verified accounts. To make the process transparent, the social media platform engaged the users by soliciting feedback […]
Three years ago, Twitter paused its public verification program after hearing feedback that it felt arbitrary and confusing to many people. A year later, the social media platform deprioritized this work further […]
Twitter launched recently a dedicated “disaster” search prompt to make it easier for Twitter users to find important — and credible — information. In partnership with the National Disaster Risk Reduction and […]
From the one billion Tweets gathered in the first half of 2020, the Philippines emerged as 10th in the countries that tweeted the most about gaming. The Asia Pacific (APAC) is the […]
Filipinos on Twitter are highly receptive audiences, and according to the Global Web Index Coronavirus Research Wave 3 in late April 2020, 73% of them are optimistic that the country will overcome […]
In response to a surge in gender-based violence globally as a result of lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, Twitter launched local-language search prompts in seven Asia Pacific countries including the Philippines. When […]
Amid the pandemic that is gripping the world, disrupting businesses, and practically stopped life on its tracks, fake news still surfaces. Social network platform Twitter decided to provide people with verified information […]
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